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Amy Covert is senior counsel in Proskauer Rose’s Labor and Employment Law Department. Amy specializes in complex employee benefits litigation, including class actions and individual claims relating to ERISA fiduciary duty and prohibited transaction provisions; anti-cutback violations; cessation of benefit accruals; age discrimination; denials of claims for benefits; severance plans; executive and equity compensation; ERISA Section 510 retaliation claims; ERISA preemption of state law claims; plan investment losses; retiree medical benefits; plan interpretation; and plan amendments and terminations. Amy has also acted on the plaintiff’s side in delinquent contribution claims brought by the plan against employer contributors to multiemployer plans.
In 2006, Amy successfully defended US Airways in the first post-Enron “stock drop” case, DiFelice v. US Airways, 436 F. Supp. 2d 756 (E.D. Va. 2006). The US Airways case was named to the National Law Journal’s “Defense Hot List” for 2006.
Before specializing in ERISA litigation, Amy’s practice encompassed advising plan sponsors, fiduciaries and service providers on various employee benefits issues, including ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction matters, tax-qualified retirement plans, welfare plans, top hat plans, severance plans, stock option plans, executive compensation programs and employment agreements.
Amy is a member of the American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section. She is the author of numerous speeches and articles, including serving as a contributor to the ABA Labor & Employment Section’s Employee Benefits Newsletter.
Amy received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona and her Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University National Law Center. Amy is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey.
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